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DUST PAN! No. 309,215. 1 Patented Dec. 16,1884.

WIT/M8858: m/vm/ro/i I f/VJM w A ATTORNEY LEONARD B. FLETCHER, OF TROY,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CYRUS S. MERRILL, OF ALBANY, NEXV YORK.

DUST=PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,215, dated December16, 1884.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD B. FLETCHER, of the city of Troy, county ofRensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dust-pans; and my invention consists, as will bemore fully de tailed hereinafter in connection with its illustration, inthe combination, with a dust-pan, of a support attached to its underside, having a bearing end upon the floor to keep the open side edge ofthe pan parallel with the floor and on the latter while the sweepingsare carried up onto the pan by a broom.

My invention also consists in the combination, with a dust-pan, of abrush-broom or brushliolder attached to the under side of said pan,adapted to receive and hold a brush or brush-broom, as will be detailedin connection with its illustration, and hereinafterindicated in theclaims.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part ofit, there is a sheetof drawings containing three figures illustrating my invention, with thesame designation ofil's parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows aperspective of the back of adust-pan containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective of thedust-pan with the upper side toward the sight and the device resting onits support, part of the handle being omitted; and Fig. 3 shows asection taken centrally through the pan, the handlesupport, andbrush-holder.

The severalparts of the dust-pan and those added features containing myinvention are designated by letter reference,and the function of theparts is explained as follows:

The letter P designates the apron; R; its side rim; R its back rim, andH its handle.

The letter S indicates the support, and O a holder.attacl1ed to theunder side of the dust pan, which holder is adapted to receive and hold,when inserted" therein, a dust-brush or dust-broom. The upper end of thesupport S attaches to the under side of the pan, and its lower end ismade with the fiat foot F, which rests on the floor when the dust-pan isin position to be used, and whereon the foot of the h of the pan israised up and the receiving edge is in contact with the floor. Theholder 0 is made tapering and in the form of an elliptical cone-frustum,the handle or end of the brushbroom being passed in through the holderatits larger end, so that the elastic fibers of the broom are grasped bythe holder when pressed therein, so as to be retained by it.

The dust-pan may be made with the support alone, or with the holderalone, or with both combined.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a dust-pan, the support S, attached at its upperend to the under side of the pan, and at its lower end constructed withthe foot F, and arranged to operate in the manner as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. In combination with a dust-pan, the holder O,made in the form of anelliptical conefrustum and attached to the under side of the dust-pan,in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination with a dust-pan, the support S, made with the foot F,and attached at the under side of the pan, and theellipticalfrustum-forln holder 0, attached to the under side of thedust-pan, with said parts constructed and arranged to operate in themanner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, N. Y., this 20th day of May, 1884.

' LEONARD l3. FLETCHER.

Vitnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, STANLEY M. HOLDEN.

